Comparison

LifeRestart vs Life on the Grind

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LifeRestart

Explore countless alternate destinies and rewrite your fate in this life simulation game. Witness your life play out automatically, make choices, and discover achievements. Revisit all the lives you've lived and see who you could become.

Highlights
  • Explore alternate destinies
  • Auto-play life simulation
  • Detailed life summaries
  • Achievement collection
  • History of past lives
  • Simple and replayable
Features
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What would happen if your life could begin again? Life Restart Simulator lets you explore countless alternate destinies, each shaped by a new beginning. Every restart unfolds a completely different story — sometimes brilliant, sometimes strange, sometimes tragic, sometimes unexpectedly beautiful. Your life plays out automatically as you witness choices, events, opportunities, setbacks, and the final outcome. When the journey ends, you’ll see a full summary of your path, discover achievements, and revisit all the lives you’ve lived. A single restart can change everything. A single beginning can lead anywhere. Restart your life. Rewrite your fate. Discover who you could become. After each run, review your life summary, explore the turning points, and collect achievements. Switch to the History tab to revisit all the lives you've experienced and track your long-term progress. Every life is short, unpredictable, and full of possibilities. How far can your talents take you? Features Draw 10 random talents and choose 3 to begin your life Auto-play life simulation with unexpected outcomes Detailed life summary after each run Achievement collection system History page to view all your past lives Simple, fast, and replayable Rewrite your journey—one life at a time.

About

Life on the Grind

Features
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GRIND CITY, 1995. Beepers, boomboxes, brick cellphones and boom bap. Life on the Grind is a comical hip-hop life-sim board game — an original homage to the classic 90s "get a job, pay your rent, chase your goals" turn-based life games, painted wall to wall in street-art style. Four goals. One winner: • PAPER — stack cash, work the career ladder, play the Block Exchange • VIBES — keep your spirits up while the city grinds you down • SKILLZ — master rap, DJing, breakin', graffiti, beatboxing and video • CLOUT — build your rep from open mics to headline residencies Every turn is one week with 60 hours. Walk the painted board, work shifts, take classes at the Cypher Spot, cook at your crib, survive rent day — and decide whether that gold chain is an investment or a liability. THE COME-UP The career mode is the game: cut demos in your home studio, get knocked back by the radio, rework the tape, win the Friday cypher battles and climb from park-bench busking to the Northstar Arena. Sign with ROTZ Records — or back yourself and stay indie. A CITY THAT PLAYS BACK • Weekly price swings, booms and market crashes announced in the Gazette • A five-instrument stock market that survives bank collapses • Burglaries, breakdowns, spoiled groceries and doctor bills • Talking shopkeepers with real voice acting • Three fully playable arcade cabinets: pinball, claw machine and rhythm PLAY TOGETHER 1–4 players hot-seat on one screen, any of them CPU-controlled — or host an online room and share the 6-letter code. Friends join from iPhone, iPad, Mac or the browser: every version plays in the same rooms. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No tracking. The whole game, offline, in English and Dutch. Powered by Hou Het Zout — www.houhetzout.nl

Screenshots

LifeRestart3 screens
Life on the Grind4 screens

Verdict

The call

LifeRestart and Life on the Grind are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LifeRestart versus Life on the Grind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifeRestartLife on the Grind
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB191 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer焰 胡Jerome Levy

In-app purchases

None

LifeRestart

No in-app purchases

None

Life on the Grind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LifeRestart free?
LifeRestart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life on the Grind free?
Life on the Grind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LifeRestart or Life on the Grind have ads?
Neither LifeRestart nor Life on the Grind shows ads.

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